Lightweight Materials

For centuries, advanced alloys have been produced using the same fundamental approach – melting metals together and carefully controlling how they cool and solidify.

Believing that this age-old method has reached its practical limits, Foundation Alloy has developed a solid-state metallurgy platform capable of engineering alloys without ever melting...

Additive Manufacturing

or additive manufacturing companies — including startups, established manufacturers, suppliers, service bureaus, research labs, universities — government funding can be a powerful route to de-risk R&D, build strategic partnerships, and move promising technologies closer to production. The notable uptick in announced DoD-backed project-call funding...

Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing

A team of students from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have won first place in the third annual AM in Steel competition at RAPID + TCT 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts. AM in Steel is organized and sponsored by America Makes, a public-private partnership that focuses on advancing additive manufacturing (AM) in the educational sphere. The...

The Robot Report
Robotics

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today issued an expanded version of the RoboticsCareer.org website with an increased emphasis on physical AI. With the release, the ARM Institute said it aims to demystify the skills and training needed to work alongside physical AI.

RoboticsCareer.org now lists the growing job...

AdvancedManufacturing.org
Manufacturing
Institute model puts U.S. sector's competitiveness on the map

Manufacturing USA was created in 2014 to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing by connecting people, ideas and technology. Manufacturing USA institutes convene business competitors, academic institutions and other stakeholders to test applications of new technology...